unshy

1 5.3

Confident and willing to talk to people

adjective
/ʌnˈʃaɪ/

: desinhibido

He was unshy about sharing his ideas at the meeting, which impressed his colleagues.

Examples

The children were unshy in expressing their opinions during the class discussion.
Diaz is unshy about sewing his heart to his sleeve, and then rolling it up and getting to it.

Blog text (17)
Her unshy nature made it easy for her to make friends at the new school.

Antonyms

shy

414 1.0

Nervous and likely to avoid people or new situations

How Confident

self-assured

11 4.1

confident

759 2.5

unshy

1 5.3

reserved

29 3.7

shy

414 1.0

Surface Forms

unshy positive

Morphology

unshy = shy (transparent) = un + shy

The negative prefix 'un-' combines with the adjective 'shy' to form a straightforward negation meaning 'not shy', which B1 learners can derive.

Etymology

The word unshy is made from the prefix un- meaning 'not' and shy meaning 'nervous or afraid around people', and you can see the same un- in common words like unhappy. So unshy simply means 'not shy', someone who is confident and ready to talk to others.